Podcasts and Other Voice Recordings
The term "podcast" is very popular to describe just about any voice content recorded and posted on the Internet. True podcasts use RSS, making the audio come to you automatically any time new content is created for a particular podcast. Use an aggregator such as iTunes to download, listen to, and synchronize podcasts. It is free to download iTunes (Mac or PC) and download and listen to podcasts.
A brief guide
1. Download iTunes for your computer http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and install it.
2. Open it on your computer and go to the iTunes Store.
3. Click Podcasts (upper left). Click Education (lower left).
4. Browse and click on a podcast of interest.
5. Listen to and subscribe to "episodes" in the bottom pane. Only one episode will be downloaded.
OR Listen to and episode and subscribe to the entire podcast by clicking "Subscribe" in the top pane.
6. Listen to it on your computer using iTunes.
In this workshop we will talk about audio recordings posted to the Internet that are one-time postings and not syndicated as a podcast. You can download and listen to them using a computer.
Classroom use:Have students create audio recordings for reports, book reviews, interviews, tutorials teaching someone else a concept they have learned, songs, raps, poetry reading, language practice. Students are likely to put in a lot of practice on something that a wide audience will hear. Post the files where others can hear the work: to shared network folders, your web page, your wiki (there may be some size limits), classroom computers, etc.
Audacity is a free, cross-platform software to download, install, and use from a computer to record and edit audio. You can record speech, and even add music interludes to the presentation using Audacity software. If you want the files to play easily, convert them to mp3 files in Audacity. To do this, you must download the lame encoder. It works with Audacity. See the directions on the download page.
The term "podcast" is very popular to describe just about any voice content recorded and posted on the Internet. True podcasts use RSS, making the audio come to you automatically any time new content is created for a particular podcast. Use an aggregator such as iTunes to download, listen to, and synchronize podcasts. It is free to download iTunes (Mac or PC) and download and listen to podcasts.
A brief guide
1. Download iTunes for your computer http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and install it.
2. Open it on your computer and go to the iTunes Store.
3. Click Podcasts (upper left). Click Education (lower left).
4. Browse and click on a podcast of interest.
5. Listen to and subscribe to "episodes" in the bottom pane. Only one episode will be downloaded.
OR Listen to and episode and subscribe to the entire podcast by clicking "Subscribe" in the top pane.
6. Listen to it on your computer using iTunes.
In this workshop we will talk about audio recordings posted to the Internet that are one-time postings and not syndicated as a podcast. You can download and listen to them using a computer.
Classroom use: Have students create audio recordings for reports, book reviews, interviews, tutorials teaching someone else a concept they have learned, songs, raps, poetry reading, language practice. Students are likely to put in a lot of practice on something that a wide audience will hear. Post the files where others can hear the work: to shared network folders, your web page, your wiki (there may be some size limits), classroom computers, etc.
Audacity is a free, cross-platform software to download, install, and use from a computer to record and edit audio. You can record speech, and even add music interludes to the presentation using Audacity software. If you want the files to play easily, convert them to mp3 files in Audacity. To do this, you must download the lame encoder. It works with Audacity. See the directions on the download page.